Medicine, Science & Technology
Colonics, Health and wellness, Public health, women's health, constipation
New York: Tyrrell's Hygienic Institute, 1916. Photographically illustrated booklet promoting "Internal Baths", i.e. colonics, and advertising the J.B.L. Cascade treatment. Disease the treatment purports to treat or cure include appendicitis, eczema, indigestion, mental distress, obesity, painful childbirth, and "that tired feeling", among other afflictions. Includes several pages of testimonials from.....
Price: $185.00
apartments, housing, advertisement, floor plans, architecture, urban development, promotion
St. Louis, MO: Neighborhood Gardens Apartments, [1935]. This single fold pamphlet advertises for the Neighborhood Gardens which is an apartment complex located in St. Louis that was first built in 1935, and is still an existence today. The front page of this pamphlet lists eighteen (18) reasons why someone would.....
Price: $85.00
Employee Manuals, WWII
Long Beach, California: Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc., 1943. A wartime training booklet for employees of the Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc., steeped in patriotism and zeal for the war effort: "You are now a member of the great family of Douglas workers. Douglas is a great name in aviation ... Wherever.....
Price: $275.00
Retail Displays,American Consumerism,Fashion,Deco
Chicago, Illinois: Zouri Metals Company, 1920s. Illustrated folding advert for Zouri brand constructed display windows, marketed to retail businesses as a stylish and secure option for displaying their products. Features an illustration of a Zouri window display on the front, attracting several fashionable and modern young ladies to the store.....
Price: $100.00
Horoscopes, Advertising and Promotion, Advertising Premium, Women's History
Chicago: Cruver Manufacturing Co., 1913. 28 pp. booklet. Illustrated wraps. The cover depicts an astronomer gazing at the heavens. Designed with advertisments printed on the left and the introduction and horoscopes by sign printed on the right hand page. The horoscope pages are in color and present an overview for.....
Price: $55.00
Optician, Advertising and Promotion, Eye Chart
Rochester, NY: [1930]. Two (2) different 8 3/4" x 4 1/4" promotional flyers presented by Dr. A. D. Haines, Eye and Ear Specialist. Each titled Test Your Eyes! with a different graphic at top to quickly determine the need to seek the care of an eye specialist. One also has.....
Price: $100.00
health resort, mineral springs, hot springs, sulfur springs, travel and tourism, advertising, medicine, Sanatarium, Spa
San Luis Obispo, CA: San Luis Hot Sulphur Springs, [1907]. An promotional booklet for San Luis Hot Sulphur Springs which was operated by A. M. Smith. The booklet contains information about the resort and over twenty-five printed black and white photographs of the resort and surrounding area. The resort claimed.....
Price: $175.00
medical treatments] [indigestion, symptoms and causes
Philadelphia: James Crissy, 1824. 195 pp. Brown leather cover, no illustrations, Fourth Edition with some additional observations. A Treatise on Indigestion contains information and observations relating to the physical ailments. The chapters list the symptoms, causes, treatments of first, second, and third stages of indigestion. 8 3/4" x 5 1/2".....
Price: $35.00
Private Printing, Women's Health, Satire, Facsimiles, Illustration
1930s. A quirky illustrated facsimile of an eighteenth-century treatise written as a hoax. The disgruntled author had been rejected by the Royal Society for membership in 1750, and his response was to publish proof "that a Woman may conceive, and be brought to Bed, without any Commerce with a Man".....
Price: $150.00
Swobodaism, Quack, Mail-Order Health and Wellness Schemes , ABAA-RBMS-2023
New York, New York: 1923. "Why take less than your full share of pleasure, happiness and success?" asks the creator of Swobodaism, or "Conscious Evolution", a mail-order scheme promising success and good health to customers. The scheme appears to be a glorified introduction to the idea of physical exercise and.....
Price: $325.00
Venereal Disease, Sex Education, Strand Theatre, Cinema, Social Welfare
New York City: Siebel Co., 1919. A single-fold pamphlet promoting "Fit to Win" a feature film on venereal disease. The tile page depicts a pert woman and is captioned "Did Dad Ever Warn You Against Her? The pamphlet captions read "SOWING WILD OATS IS EASY--IT IS THE REAPING THAT MAY.....
Price: $150.00
Women's Clubs, Americans in London, Social History
London: c. 1924. The guide to the American Women's Club of London house gives a quick view into their work and the space. 16 pages. The first two pages give an overview of the facilities, cost, as well as a brief description of the American Women's Club philanthropic activities. The.....
Price: $75.00
death, hospital, funeral, medical, autopsy
[1926]. This booklet contains a speech that was first delivered by Arthur H. Chandler at the New England Hospital Association Conference in May 1925. This speech gave a fictional telling of the death of Mr. Bank's niece and the subsequent miscommunications between the hospital and funeral home in regards to.....
Price: $100.00
Sex Education,Birth Control,The American Family,Venereal Disease,Sex Ed in the Roaring 20's,Film Censors,Albert Dezel,Marriage,Sex and Marriage
Chicago, Illinois. Sex Educational Films, 1928. A sex education booklet for married couples in 1928, written in a friendly casual tone. Warns against bringing venereal disease into a marriage, and urges men to "move cautiously, considerately, [and] humanely" on his wedding night in respect of his young wife's "maidenly modesty".....
Price: $150.00
Sex Education,Birth Control,The American Family,Venereal Disease,20th cent. Perceptions of Homosexuality
Chicago, Illinois: Budlong Press Company, 1964. A printed sex education guide for married couples, written from the point of view of a doctor, broken into three parts: "Some Facts of Life" (sex anatomy, modern attitudes towards sex); "The Sexual Act" (desire, coital positions, hygiene); and "Conception and Pregnancy" (how conception.....
Price: $325.00
Adult Sex Education,Marriage,Rhythm Method
Chicago, Illinois: The Budlong Press, 1959. The "Rhythm Edition" of a sex education booklet by sex researcher Bernard R. Greenblat, M.D., published exclusively for general practitioners to give to their married patients. Covers the following subjects among others: modern attitudes towards sex; the male and female sex organs; the sexual.....
Price: $200.00
festival, Birmingham Triennial Music Festival, fund raiser, classical music, hospital, charity
Birmingham, England: B. Hunt and Sons, September 1849. A broadside for the the Birmingham Musical Festival, more often called the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival, which was the longest-running classical music festival. It was founded in 1787, it is several day musical festival, that ran in September every three years. The.....
Price: $85.00
spa, health resort, mineral springs, chronic disease, underground tunnel, sanitarium
Marlin, TX: [1920]. An eight page folding brochure for the Buie Clinic and Hospital which was a sanitarium and bath house in Marlin, TX, which claimed to help cure a variety of chronic diseases. The baths of the sanitarium were connected to the 'Falls Hotel' via an underground tunnel. The.....
Price: $75.00
medicine, pharmacy, elixir, medicated wine, schools & universities, Louisville College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy
Chicago, IL: J. J. Spalding & Co., 1872. A printed copy of a paper read before the Louisville College of Pharmacy by Conrad Lewis Diehl (1840-1917) during a pharmaceutic meeting at the College. Diehl was a prominent pharmacist of his time, and the paper includes information on how to make.....
Price: $125.00
medicine, notes, skeletal system, anatomy, foot, leg, bones, drawings
March 1888. A wonderfully detailed notebook which features notes on the skeletal system of the leg and foot, including all of their bones, cartilages, and ligaments that support and give shape to the body structures. The notes are legible, though not easily understood, unless one is familiar with the skeletal.....
Price: $150.00
Civil Engineering, Topography, Maps and Surveys, Maritime, History of Ohio
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Wagner & McGuigan, Lithographer, 1854. Engraved scaled survey of the Harbor of Cleveland, Ohio, showing "pier work recommended by the Board of Engineers". Published "To accompany the Report of the Board of Engineers, Lake Harbors & Western Rivers" on May 27th, 1854. Adapted from a survey by Captain.....
Price: $150.00
sanitarium, health resort, sulfur springs, mineral springs, hydrotherapy
Chicago, IL: Wm H Gallo & Son, Printers, [1910]. A brochure for the Crane Sanitarium located in Elmhurst, IL, and founded by Milo A. Crane. The slogan of this sanitarium was "The place where sick people get well and the tired ones rest." The sanitarium sourced its water supply from.....
Price: $115.00
bathhouse, medicine, business history, correspondence, Sanitarium, homeopathic
Lowell, MA: September 26, 1849. Stampless post. A letter between two doctors, Dr. Bulter Wilmarth and Dr. John Hero that discussing the various patients at a local sanitarium in Lowell, MA, that Wilmarth is treating. There is also some talk about the possibility of the pair working together, either at.....
Price: $225.00
correspondence, medicine, Mississippi river, horse
Poplar, Mississippi: April 7, 1890. A two page letter from Howard G. Thornton, a physician and surgeon located in Poplar, MS. He is writing his younger brother, Ed, who lives in Commerce, TX, with their parents. Thornton describes a busy winter in Mississippi, with lots of sickness, and a rainy.....
Price: $75.00